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F_Port

A fibre channel fabric port.

fabric

The infrastructure of a fibre channel network (for example, networked switches).

far end crosstalk (FEXT)

The distortion of an outgoing signal by an incoming signal on an adjacent wire, measured in decibels.

Fast Ethernet

A nickname for the 100Mbps version of Ethernet.

fast link pulse (FLP) burst

A sequence of pulses used to transmit the 16-bit messages used for Ethernet Auto-Negotiation on a twisted pair medium.

FC-0

A fibre channel level that corresponds to the lower part of the physical layer.

FC-1

A fibre channel level that performs 8B/10B encoding of data bytes and defines the usage of special code-groups.

FC-2

A fibre channel level that corresponds ...

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